This paper examined the extent to which corruption pose a challenge and weigh down national security and development in Nigeria with various manifestations. The prevalence of corruption challenges in Nigeria is highly pervasive by undermining the nation's social, economic and political development. Corruption has unfavourable consequences on investment, growth, security and national development. Thus, weakening the institutional foundation on which all policies are made and implemented and making it detrimental to the sustainable development of the country. Therefore, this study examines the causes, manifestations, and implications of corruption on national development in Nigeria. The study is qualitative in nature; it makes use of secondary sources of data in discussing challenges of corruption to national security and development in Nigeria by consulting the literature on corruption. Among others, the study recommended that moral values should be inculcated among citizens of Nigeria, the citizens should be provided with more enlightenment programmes on consequences of corruption. It further recommends that the anti-corruption law and institutions be reformed in order to strengthen their responses in treating corrupt cases easily for socio-economic and political development of the country for sustainable development in Nigeria. Provisions of basic amenities for the citizens are important in the fight against corruption. | Corruption as a challenge to national security and development in Nigeria
